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More artificial and electronic

Tokio Hotel crashed to the world in 2008 not only for his sound – very forceful to be such a young band – but also for the presence of his front man, an androgynous vocalist with a very peculiar voice and a surprising interpretive force. Now, the German group returns with Humanoid, a disc less rocker and more loaded towards the electronics.

The band started in 2003, but it was not until 2007 – when they did the crossover to the English – that was announced in the rest of the world, having a big impact in our country.

“Monsoon“ was the first song of Tokio Hotel that installed in the ears of the adolescents in America, remaining during a long time in the lists of popularity and untying a madness for these four enigmatic figures that were attracting the looks and were provoking the deafening screams of the public, the feminine public in his majority.

Only in his native country they sold almost three million discs, and later they were made deserving of a lot of golden Discs and Platinum by Scream, material that was compiling his best topics in English.

Now they return with Humanoid, a disc that has caused surprise and opinions found by the fact of having adopted a less complaisant sound (and even disconcerting for some), on having left aside these riffs of guitar that characterized them to penetrate into the electronic things.

Also, the hooks in the choirs, the memorable melodies and the emotiveness to ceiling have disappeared; the interpretation of Bill Kaulitz (vocalist) has happened for a series of filters and vocoders to be used in layers, without managing to stand out.

In Humanoid there seems to become extinct part of the sheen that it was making dazzle to the group. Nevertheless, this production presents a new one in the direction of exploring and that can help them to give a pleasant surprise.

Tokio Hotel
Automatic
Universal, 2009
Of beginning, they surprise the arrangements in “Automatic“, where one listens to a voice robotics (vocoders) almost unrecognizable and a few riffs who remember us to bands like Metro Station. A very commercial topic that well might be included in the dance repertoire of the caverns.
Topics are recognized as “Dogs unleashed”, which begins with a sinte much in the style of Linkin Park, but which also has dyes of the purest German electro. In fact, a few proper assembled sounds of the old school of Kraftwerk. The extract of the band now is a resonance unremovable robotics, and only there stays the desire of which the force of his live performances does not come down to a languid interpretation.

An album – produced by David Jost, The Matrix, Guy Chambers and Desmond Child – to which artificial life remains him and of which only his followers will have the final verdict.
Humanoid was released firstly in his version in German and later in English (both in edition standard and deluxe). 25 songs were recorded for the album and finally 12 edited for the version standard and 16 for the deluxe version.

“Automatic“ or “Automatisch“ (in German) are the first two promotional videos of this disc and they made début in last September.

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